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The Owen County U10 Boys hosted the Frankfort Magic for their first game of the fall soccer season.
The teams proved to be evenly matched. After 50 minutes of play, the game ended in a tie.
Scoring for the Rebels was evenly distributed with Cody Anderson, Jack Spurgeon and Kaleb Epperson each scoring one goal.

Boys soccer
• The boys’ soccer team hosted the Owen County Invitational last weekend. The team lost games to Covington Latin and Carroll County. Covington Latin beat Paris to win the tournament. The Rebels will be in action this week at the 13th/14th Region All “A” Classic. The Rebels will open the tournament against Lexington Christian at 8 p.m. tonight at Capital View Park. They will host Grant County Tuesday.

Some habits are bad. This one is not.
The Owen County High School girl’s golf team is making a habit of winning the Eighth Region All “A” Classic.
On Aug. 23 at Fairway Golf Course, the team did it for the third year in a row.
As a team, the Lady Rebels shot a combined score of 324 to beat their nearest competitor, Carroll County, which posted a 406.
According to Owen County High School Girls Golf Coach David Wainscott, it was the lowest round shot by a team he has coached.

• The Colonels are 1-1 on the season following a 60-21 win over Madison Southern Friday night.
• Bourbon County finished 2010 with a record of 4-7. They are a 4A school.
• Johnny Poynter is entering his third season as head coach of the Colonels. Poynter came to Bourbon County after a stint at Trimble County.
• Rebels head coach Adam Fowler is looking for his first win against Poynter. The Rebels lost to Trimble County in Fowler’s first year before dropping games to the Colonels the last two seasons.

He may have lost his tie, but his team won the game.
On the way to Dry Ridge Saturday night for the Rebels’ game with Grant County, Owen County High School Head Football Coach Adam Fowler’s tie blew out the bus window.
If the coach is superstitious, he may leave the window open the rest of the year.
Owen County defeated Grant County, 20-6, Saturday night in the second game of the Grant County Gridiron Kickoff Bowl.

I have a confession to make.
My name is John and I am a tomato bum.
For most of my adult life, I have been able to slip through the summer rarely spending money on the most wonderful of summer fruit — the vine-ripened, but still carrying flecks of dirt, homegrown Kentucky tomato.
For me, homegrown tomatoes are the crystal meth of agriculture. Usually, the first taste is free but after that, they start charging. And as soon as you’re are done with the first one, you crave more.

When he was young, he dreamed of one day becoming a pilot, and in 1938 Owen countian, Harry Clark Karsner, received his Commercial Pilots License. During World War II he was a flight instructor at Ryan’s School of Aeronautics in California, but it was after the war that Clark Karsner became well-known throughout Owen County and the surrounding area.

Sept. 11, 2001, is a date that few Americans will ever forget. The scenes from that day, when terrorists hijacked four commercial planes and intentionally crashed them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, are likely to remain in the memory of millions for years to come.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the tragic event. One Owen County church has set out to remember the sacrifices of fire fighters, EMS and police and to honor those locally.

Tomorrow morning, the tables at J&K Kountry Kollectibles will likely be filled with familiar faces. They will come for breakfast and maybe even to tell a story or two. It will be just like every other day at New Liberty’s favorite meeting place.
The only difference will be the name of the business and the one in charge.
For two years, Katie and Jim Gibson have operated the business, but now they’re passing it on to a young entrepreneur, with a love for the place where she grew up.

Owen County High School recently received its ACT standardized test results and saw its highest scores since 2008, when it became a requirement for 11th-graders to take it.
The students’ average composite score was slightly below the state’s average. The state’s average is 18.8, while OCHS scored 18.6.
The local district’s average on reading scores was 19.1, slightly better than the state’s 19, and Owen County tied with the state average in science at 19.